Re: UTI strings
Re: UTI strings
- Subject: Re: UTI strings
- From: John Joyce <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 10:39:38 -0500
On May 31, 2010, at 4:28 AM, julius wrote:
>
> On 31 May 2010, at 10:06, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you perhaps tell me which UTI maps onto NSPlainTextDocumentType
>>
>> You would guess on kUTTypePlainText
>>
>>> and which onto NSMacSimpleTextDocumentType ....?
>>
>> In 3 major releases Apple didn't managed to declare UTI for modern file formats like sdef,
>> so I doubt they defined an UTI for a dead file format like Simple Text.
>>
>
> That's a relief. At least I now know that these mappings are undocumented.
> But still does each one of us have to rediscover these by trial and error, add it all together and that must make for thousands of hours lost repeating the same thing over and over again. Reminds me of Einstein's definition of insanity.
>
Remember, that although creator codes are out, extensions *seem* to be recognized,
and... being a BSD, there is still also the *magic number* for file types...
(the magic file does get updated regularly)_______________________________________________
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